Internet in Ukraine

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Ukraine has a large and steadily growing Internet sector, mostly uninfluenced by the global financial crisis; in April 2012 rapid growth was forecast for at least two more years.[1] As of 2011, Ukraine was ranked 9th in the "Top 10 Internet countries in Europe", with then 33.9% Internet penetration and 15.3 million users; as of June 2012, the Internet penetration had grown to 34.1%,[2] and further to 36.8% as of 2012 yearly results.[3]

In 2011, online retailing turnover in Ukraine exceeded USD 2 bn. For 2012, it was expected to to reach USD 4 bn. Online payments in the country in 2011 where estimated at USD 400 m (a 200% growth compared to 2010).[4]

As of 2011, Ukraine ranked 8th among the world’s countries with the fastest Internet access speed, with average download speed of 1,190 Kbps.[5]

According to Freedom House, Internet in Ukraine is "Free" (in contrast, the organization considers Ukraine's news media as a whole as being only "Partly Free").[6]

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Internet audience [edit]

According to the Internet Association of Ukraine, 48% of Ukraine's population older than 15 have had access to Internet in March 2012; 31% of them were accessing the Internet daily.[7]

According to GfK Ukraine polls of 2012, 16,8 million people (43,5% of Ukraine's population older than 16) accessed Internet in the month preceding poll, which was the 10% increase to 2011 results.[3]

A February 2012 general population poll by Research & Branding Group showed that 59% of those polled did not use the internet.[8]

Internet service providing [edit]

In 2011 the number of subscribers to Internet service providers[9] in Ukraine had increased compared to 2010 by 13.3% to 4,148,658.[8] By the of 3rd quarter of 2012, number of broadband subscribers alone exceeded that figure, grown to 6 700 000.[10] 2011 revenues from Internet service providing in Ukraine reached UAH 4.75 bn (USD 595 mn).[8] It is unclear whether these numbers include mobile Internet services which are provided by all of Ukraine's mobile phone operators.

Internet service providing by particular access technologies [edit]

All existing standards of Internet access are available in Ukraine, with broadband services mostly limited to cities.

Mobile GPRS access is available in vast majority of Ukraine's territory, including all urban areas and airports, most roads and railway lines, many coastal waters. 3G mobile access market is steadily developing. Public Wi-Fi hotspots are widespread throughout cities. There are plans and projects for providing mass wireless broadband access in urban open spaces, on Ukrzaliznytsia long-distance trains and in urban public transport vehicles. According to Ericsson ConsumerLab, 36% of Ukraine's urban population access the Internet via mobile phone or smartphone.[11]

According to the iKS-Consulting, there were 6 700 000 broadband subscribers in Ukraine as of 3Q 2012; 5.97 millions of them were households, which amounts to 34% broadband Internet penetration of all country's households. The consultancy estimated broadband providing revenues in the 3rd quarter of 2012 at UAH 1.36 bn (USD 167 mn), which is the growth 13.7% compared to 3Q 2011 results.[12]

Thousands of national, regional and local ISP operate in Ukraine, with as much 14 ISPs competing for every household client in the capital city Kiev.[13]

Major Internet service providers [edit]

According to Expert & Consulting (E&C), the top-10 Ukrainian fixed Broadband Internet service providers had about 3,36 millions subscribers as of the 2nd quarter of 2012; as of the 3rd quarter, that figure rose to about 3,46 millions subscribers,.[14][15]

Ukrtelecom is the largest Internet access provider (as well as fixed telephone provider) and the sole 3G access provider in Ukraine. In particular, it was serving over 1.4 millions DSL/ISDN fixed access clients in June 2012.[16] The second-largest provider Volia is a major player specializing in cable access combined with TV signal. Both MTS[17] and Kyivstar[18] (Ukraine's largest mobile phone operators) also offer fixed broadband access along with their mobile Internet services.

Global social networks in Ukraine [edit]

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Facebook in Ukraine [edit]

There were 1,686,500 Facebook users in Ukraine in 2011 and 2,122,680 in September 2012.[2]

Twitter in Ukraine [edit]

According to the Google Analytics, in 2012 the number of daily Twitter visitors from Ukraine reaches 120,000 while the "Yandex.Ukraine" estimated the number of Ukrainian users at 500,000, and GfK Ukraine, a market research company, found that a quarter of Ukrainian Twitter users ignore their accounts completely, while 28 percent check them only occasionally.[19] Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko was the most followed Twitter user in Ukraine as of early 2012, with 91,547 followers.[19]

VK [edit]

According to Alexa Internet ranking, VK is the most visited website in Ukraine.[20] According to the company, in January 2012 VK had more than 20 million registered users from Ukraine (out of a total of 155 million users worldwide); 6.6 million of them visited the site daily.[21] As of February 2013, VK's mean daily audience in Ukraine grew to 9.35 million (according to Liveinternet), which amounted to 20.2% of the network's mean daily global traffic.[22]

Internet-based commerce and trade in Ukraine [edit]

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History of Internet in Ukraine [edit]

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According to CIA estimates, Ukraine had over 94,000 Internet hosts and, extrapolating from figures given in 2002 and about a million users in 2004.[23] By November 2004 Ukraine (with then a population of 48 million) boasted some 6 million users accessing the Internet.[24][25] By then the web in Ukraine had evolved to the stage of being a reliable information medium.[26] In June 2012 had 15,300,000 Internet users.[2]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Ukraine's Internet growth rates will stabilize in 2 or 3 years (Ukrainian)
  2. ^ a b c Europe Internet Usage
  3. ^ a b "Госстат считает, что в Украине 5 млн интернет-пользователей". AIN. February 12, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2013. 
  4. ^ http://ht.comments.ua/2012/05/08/337655/oborot-torgovli-uanete-2012.html Оборот украинских интернет-магазинов в прошлом году составил более $2 млрд] (Ukrainian)
  5. ^ Pando Networks Releases Global Internet Speed Study
  6. ^ Ukraine, Freedom House
  7. ^ Analysis of Ukraine's Internet audience (Ukrainian)
  8. ^ a b c (Ukrainian) Більше половини українців не користуються інтернетом, Ukrayinska Pravda (Ukrainian) (29 July 2012)
  9. ^ which is significantly lesser that the number of individual Internet users
  10. ^ "В третьем квартале интернет-провайдеры стали богаче на 1,36 млрд. грн.". proIT. December 13, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2013.  (Ukrainian)
  11. ^ ""Київстар" модернізує мережу у відповідь на зростання трафіку". Kyivstar (in uk). April 2, 2013. Retrieved May 6 17 2013. 
  12. ^ "В третьем квартале интернет-провайдеры стали богаче на 1,36 млрд. грн.". proIT. December 13, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2013. ](Ukrainian)
  13. ^ У Києві інтернет - мов у Голландії, а на Рівненщині - як в Афганістані (Ukrainian) (29 July 2012)
  14. ^ Fixed broadband operators rating in II’2012: changes in top-3 players
  15. ^ Fixed broadband operators rating in III’2012: market consolidation
  16. ^ Укртелеком склав іспит на відмінно: УЄФА ЄВРО 2012 забезпечено телекомунікаціями найвищого рівня! (Ukrainian)(29 July 2012)
  17. ^ Підключення (Ukrainian)
  18. ^ Безлімітний Інтернет. Технологія (Ukrainian)
  19. ^ a b Ukraine is not a tweeting nation yet, but give it time, Kyiv Post (5 April 2012)
  20. ^ "Alexa - top sites in Ukraine". Retrieved 2013-05-04. 
  21. ^ Vkontakte.ru opens representative office in Ukraine, East-West Digital News (25 January 2012), translation from the (Ukrainian) original: "Социальная сеть ВКонтакте открывает представительство в Украине". AIN. January 19, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2013. 
  22. ^ "Почти 10 млн пользователей из Украины заходят во "ВКонтакте" каждые сутки". AIN. March 4, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2013.  (Ukrainian)
  23. ^ factbook/geos/up.html The world fact book, Central Intelligence Agency (2004) (accessed January 26, 2011)
  24. ^ Karatnycky, Adrian. (2005) Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. Foreign Affairs. Pg 6
  25. ^ K.J, Myroslaw. (2006) Internet Use in the Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. Kelley School of Business. Pg 71-80
  26. ^ D.E., Robb & D.C. Yen. International web development: A detailed analysis by selected countries. Journal of Internet Commerce. Pg 121–145

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